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Description: | Copper alloy brooch of a horse, 38mm long and 28mm high, 2nd Century. The horse is flat and facing right, its missing its legs and tail. It has a narrow head with wider neck and shoulders. At the base of the shoulders is the broken off front leg which faces forward. The underside is very straight and the centre of the torso is narrow. towards the hind quarters this curves downwards to the broken off back leg. The rump is quite flat and thin with the begining of a broken off tail emerging from the centre, pointing down slightly. The object is quite corroded with the original surface only surviving on the head and mid torso. It has some enamal decoration intact, across the shoulders five dots are present, four of which have blue enamel. Running under this is a line, missing its enamel, which runs the length of the lower side of the horse and terminates in a swirl at the horses hind quarter. Another line begins in this swirl and runs along the top of the horses back, terminating along side the line of blue dots across the shoulder. Similar to 1181 in Hattat's ancient brooches.
Recorded at the 'Hidden Treasures' finds day at Market Harborough. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Wendy Scott | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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